Octavia Lau medalled in four individual events at the B.C. summer swimming championships in Kamloops last weekend.
The Division 4 Burnaby Mountain Mantas club swimmer won the girls’ 50-metre freestyle while also earning silver medals in the 100m free and 200m individual medley and a single bronze in the 100m backstroke.
Lau also moved up a division to win two more gold medals with Div. 5 girls Lauren Sartori, Yimi Huang and Sayla Briggs in the Manta’s winning 200m medley and free relays.
Briggs also won an individual gold medal in the 50m free, while Sartori was a runner-up in the 50m breaststroke.
May Li was a double gold medallist in Div. 8 for the Mantas, winning both 100m butterfly and back. Li was also a runner-up in the 200m IM and fifth in the 100m free. She also shared a third gold in the Simon Fraser region medley relay.
Club coach David Hibberd also won a gold at Div. 8, winning the men’s 100m breast.
Elva Yu picked up a bronze medal in the Div. 3 girls’ 50m breast in another strong Mantas’ showing at the provincials. Yu also qualified for three other race finals, including fifth in 100m IM. Yu and Hannah Cui shared a gold medal on the Simon Fraser girls’ medley relay team.
Cui just missed a medal for the Mantas, placing fourth in the Div. 3 girls’ 50m free and back.
The Mantas Div. 3 boys’ relay team, including Sean Li, DJ Tsang, Alex Shen and Sean Leong, won a pair of silver medals in the medley and free. Li also made the final of the 50m back and picked up a gold on the regional medley relay team.
Bryan Yu, Harvey Lee, Shawn Huang and Xavier Lau swam to a silver medal in the Div. 5 boys’ 200m medley and picked up a second silver with Lee, Huang, Lau and Elton Lai in the free relay. Lau made finals in three individual races, including a fourth-place finish in the 100m free. Lee made four finals, including a fourth in the 100m fly. He also won a gold in Simon Fraser’s regional medley.
Manta clubbers Megan Kao, Vincent Chung, Teresa Peng and Bryan Cheung also made individual division finals at the provincials.
The Mantas won a total of 18 medals at the provincials, including seven individual and relay gold.
’Cudas win 15
(Brian Kang)
Jakub Vincalek won the sole individual gold medal for the Burnaby Barracudas at the provincial championships in Kamloops. Vincalek defeated runner-up clubmate Leo Shen in the Div. 7 boys’ 100m breast final.
Vincalek and Shen also teamed up with Henry McKenzie and Montavi Kidd for medals in the Barracuda’s second-place medley and free relays.
Shen medalled in two other races, including a silver in the 100m breast and a bronze in the 200m IM. He also made finals in two other disciplines.
The Div. 1 girls’ team of Amy Kang, Amy Zhu, Natalia Blazevic and Ashley Ko won a team gold in the 200m free relay.
Ko picked up individual medals in her age group, placing second in the 100m free, third in the 50m free and back and a fourth-place finish in the 100m IM. Kang also made the 50m fly final.
The ‘Cudas Div. 2 boys – Justin Lee, Conlin Duong, Cayden Liang and Ivan Phung – also won gold in the 200m medley relay.
Randy Ho, Brady Liu, Ricky Dang and Brian Kang shared a silver medal in the boys’ Div. 6 medley. Ho also made three individual finals.
Cayden Liang and Markus Wong won individual silvers for the Barracudas in the Div. 2 and 3 boys’ 50m breast, respectively. Wong also made finals in two free events and won a gold with the Simon Fraser region 200m medley team.
Cameron Dickson placed third in the Div. 4 boys’ 50m free and was fourth in both 50m fly and 100m breast.
Div. 8 swimmer and club coach Alexandre Duguay was runner-up in the 200m IM.
Garrett Yeo came home with a gold on the Div. 5 boys’ regional medley team. Yeo also made finals in the 100m free and breast.
Kevin Wei, Paige Catlin, Rowan Cheung, Maria Sulaver and Erica Marquez also earned berths in individual divisional finals.
The Barracudas came away with 15 total medals.
